The Walking Dead: "Now" Review - IGN
"Now" was basically the episode I was slightly dreading following the big Glenn fake-out back in "Thank You." And also, by default, a big reason why I was so open to last week's Morgan flashback chapter, despite it happening at a time when fans had been worked into a frenzy and were demanding immediate answers.
As I'd mentioned, due to reasons stemming from Robert Kirkman's own comic pages, I anticipated Glenn being gone for a few episodes and for the situation not to get resolved right away. I pegged it at at least two episodes. And, in my mind, last week's "Here's Not Here," despite not taking place in the present storyline (much), took up one of the "buffer episodes" I'd anticipated. It counted as "time away from Glenn." So my hope is now, after "Now," that this will be it. I'm not certain by any means, but it'd be nice if this was the only true in-between chapter.
We all know how Walking Dead works. You get an avalanche of action and death and then everyone has to sort of sit with it for an episode or two. Or four. There's down time. Season 6 started off in a hurry and then didn't really let up. So I get that a rest episode was needed. A calm chapter that allowed most of our main players to reel from, and recuperate from, the tragedy. And so that's what "Now" was. A second breather. During a season that still hasn't spent quality time with key members of its core cast. Should I assume we'll see more of Daryl and the others next week? Sure, the show should spend time building up new characters - like Deanna, Spencer, Denise, etc - but it also can't be so arrogant as to think we're fine just letting series favorites remain off-screen most of the time.
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